Laughter is Magic

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

A happy Twinkling Tuesday to you all!

We have a Temporary Twinkie hosting this week's Twinkling Tuesday Challenge - welcome Nicky! He is Kimmie Doktor's boy and his challenge for us this week is a doozer! He'd love to see cards or projects with the color combo Blue, Orange and Purple. Told ya it was a doozer!

I'll be honest with you, these colors rolled around in my head for days before I attempted a card. I wasn't sure which color to play up more and which patterned paper in my stash was even going to fit this color scheme! But then I pulled the ultra bright 'Que Sera Sera' stack from K&Company out and it all became clear! :)

I chose to play up the orange and blue hues, since they play well together, and add the purple as an accent. The white cardstock for the base and the matting helped tie the three colors together.

I used The Greeting Farm's 'Hope and Grace' stamp set which has just the cutest little girls in it! I love how, just like the Wild Sprouts, they have a different look to them than the Anyas.

Hope's hair is colored with Morning Marigold and Creamy Caramel. I applied the MM first as an overall wash, then when that layer was dry, I went back over it with the MM again but this time I followed some of the strands of her hair to define them more. Then when that layer was dry, I applied Creamy Caramel to the darker areas of her locks (upper scalp).

The layout is from this week's Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge, TECC67.

This week's featured Twinky is none other than Darla Wilson, the woman who got Madelynn's mum, Jess Diedrich, stamping in the first place! :) You can check her card out on her blog or Madelynn's Twinkling blog. If you'd like to play along this week, just upload your card on your blog or SCS, use this week's keyword MTTSC22, and leave a link to it on this post.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I really appreciate it. :)

Supplies

Stamps: The Greeting Farm's 'Hope and Grace'

Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Creamy Caramel, Pretty in Pink, Morning Marigold, Buckaroo Blue, Really Rust, Lavender Lace, Cool Caribbean, Sahara Sand, Distress Inks 'Antique Linen'

Papers: Canson Watercolor, Georgia Pacific cs, Bazzil cs, PP - K&Company 'Que Sera Sera' paper stack

Access: Ribbon, Circle Punches, EK Success Corner Punch, Dimensionals